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Ancient %

Name: Bitcoin Ancient % (daily)
Creator: OnChainLab

Whale Activity

Percentage of daily volume from ancient coins. High = old money is distributing.

Current Value

0.0153

As of

2026-10-16

Z-Score

—

Signal

No threshold

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Methodology

Open, reproducible — computed from our own archive node

Definition

Ancient % — the share of the day's spent volume that came from very old (5y+) coins.

Formula

ancient_pct = (spent_5y + spent_5y_plus) / total_spent

How we compute it

From the age-banded spent-volume aggregates: ancient (5y+) spent volume over total spent volume.

Provenance · Every on-chain metric traces back to our own self-hosted Bitcoin archive node — no third-party data vendor sits in the path. We extract the full UTXO lifecycle (each output's creation height/time, value, and the height/time it was later spent), join it against an independent USD price oracle, and roll it up into daily aggregates. The metric formulas are pure functions over those aggregates (src/pipeline/formulas.py), so any value on this page can be reproduced from the published daily archive.

Interpretation

High values = old money is distributing — a high-signal, rare event.

Caveats & limitations

·Volume-weighted; a single ancient whale move can dominate a day.

Data points: 6,238 rows, 2009-01-12 to 2026-10-16Open in Lab →

Current Ancient % reading

As of 2026-10-16, Bitcoin’s Ancient % is 1.5%, compared with 0.5% one year earlier (2025-10-16). The series has 6,238 daily readings from 2009-01-12 to 2026-10-16, computed from our own full-archive Bitcoin node and refreshed every day.

Historical extremes

The highest Ancient % on record is 26.4% on 2022-12-10; the lowest is 0.0% on 2009-01-12. Readings near either end of that range have historically coincided with cycle turning points — use the chart above to see where today sits relative to past extremes.

Read it with

Whale Awakening — Detection of very old coins (5yr+) moving.
Whale Spike — Magnitude of whale transaction spikes.
Ancient Moved — Total BTC moved from ancient (very old) UTXOs.
BTC Price — Bitcoin price (USD)
MVRV — Market Value to Realized Value.

Data & method

Source: computed from raw UTXO data on OnChainLab’s own Bitcoin node — no third-party data vendor. Category: Whale Activity. Last updated 2026-10-16. The full series is free to download as JSON or as part of the full daily CSV, and the published dataset is cryptographically committed — you can verify it yourself. Browse all metrics.